Meanings of lamp standard in English

All at once, Ralph was dancing round a lamp standard.

Dangerfield walked swiftly through the labyrinth of lanes into a little square with a lamp standard and more children.

Do my eyes deceive me or is a magpie building a nest on the lamp standard outside my front garden?

Upon that farthest from the door was a graceful electric- lamp standard of copper connected by a free wire with the wall.

Floral lamp standards between columns in corridors, pale yellow light.

Lamp standards between columns, globe half concealed, by Kelham.

Florentine Court; only illumination, single lamp standards; contrast with intense light in Court of Universe, beyond.

I pointed at one of the many lamp standards that were dotted around the periphery of the forecourt.

People were jammed up against railings, perched on parapets, shinned up lamp standards, sitting on the old stone walls.

The smiling happy faces of present and would-be politicians that adorned inanimate objects such as telegraph poles, lay-by signs, electricity lamp standards etc.